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A Tulip Tree growing as a shrub against the wall of a building in Hawi. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.

Hamilton’s response, as it’s been all year, was to slam the team and demand “serious talks” post-race. I flagged Hamilton’s attitude toward Ferrari back in September in the aftermath of the Italian GP. Regarding another clash with Leclerc, Hamilton claimed not to be interested in arguing and fighting about the team in public while doing exactly that, claiming that “here there are no rules.” The problem with Hamilton’s comments all season is that they don’t come off as “I want what’s best for…

Many people live with a persistent sadness. It is like carrying a deep-rooted grief you can neither name nor cure. Slowly, the motivation to do anything drains away. You no longer see a reason to get out of bed. Your energy is gone. Joy is absent. Even your body feels heavy. You don't want to go to therapy because there seems to be nothing to talk about. There is nothing you can put your finger on. This is often a sign of dormant energy looking for an outlet. You don't know what to do next.…

Ubayd Zakani, excerpt from Kulliyat, in Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople. Edited and Translated by Bernard Lewis, Vol. II: Religion and Society (1974; rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 281-282: A king had three wives, one Persian, one Arab, and one Coptic. One night he lay beside the Persian woman and asked her, "What time is it?" She answered, "It is the hour of dawn." He asked het "How do you know?" She answered, "Because the scent of the roses…

Nov 4, 2026 · By Seth Fuhr You can run any script inside a recovered VM from a Zerto post-recovery script on the ZVM Appliance, even without WinRM, a domain or a network path to the guest. The answer is PowerCLI’s Invoke-VMScript, which sends the script through vCenter and VMware Tools instead of the network.… The post Serenity Now: Post-Recovery Scripts That Reach Inside the Guest appeared first on Justin's IT Blog.

Arliss Watford and his cabin, the carved figures represent Southern African-American’s moving north, he told me. Arliss Watford and his carvings. Original fuzzy photos by Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb Arhoskie, North Carolina c 1991 #blackfolkart #africanamericanfolkart

A month or so ago I bought a second hand Squier Sonic Mustang for 80 euros, with the idea of learning how to do some basic luthiers work, like fret levelling, action setup, and so on. I did that, so now it plays very well, then I went a step further and replaced some parts […] The post Upgrading my guitar appeared first on Alessandro Muraro.

Score of 96. I am excited for both this and GTA VI. November and December 2026 is looking hopeful for many reasons. Source: www.metacritic.com

I’m not sure if it’s possible for English actress Frances Barber to NOT appear glamorous

One of the things I've realized I do when I'm in a new city, or a new part of a city, or back in a part of a city I haven't been in in a while, is that I take pictures of bikes.Above: Toronto. But it doesn't really matter, because I do it everywhere.Why do I do it? Because I think that bikes, especially the kind of cargo ebikes I tend to love taking phoots of, like that one, but really any kind of frequent visibility of bikes, are an indicator species of a kind of effective urbanism that I…

Holy shit, even Kansas is blue. This is definitely a referendum on trump. High fuel prices, the failed economy and the Iran war. It is so pointless for us average joes, but the billionaire industrial war complex machines will punch up their push. Yes, they can still make another few trillion off the backs of our taxes before the war is shut down for good. What a shit show. The money train gonna keep on moneying the Ratheons and other harbingers of hate and death. But there is an end in sight.…

Godzilla is the king of monsters. Introduced in the eponymous 1954 movie, Godzilla has spawned loads of sequels and reboots both in its native Japan and in Hollywood. Godzilla is not only incredibly large and violent, but is also able to shoot destructive heat rays; truly a remarkable, iconic creature, and absent from any official LEGO® depictions until now. Its 5,363 pieces make 21375 Godzilla the 24th largest LEGO set to date – and the largest from LEGO® Ideas. More importantly, this is the…

Luna Gray Under Review:The Ship of Death. Kyle Winkler. Avon A, September 2026 I love Dungeons & Dragons, and one of my favorite parts of the game happens before anyone rolls a die. A new rulebook shows up and I want to understand all of it. I read a section, then read it again because one word seems to be doing more work than it should. When an instruction could mean two different things, I stop and turn it over for a while. Long before I play, I’m already thinking about what the game might…

Ben Nadel demonstrates that automatic variable scoping can't "just" be compiled into the CFML byte code. ColdFusion is far too dynamic for that; at least in some contexts....

If you’d like to listen to Pete Ericson of Leaky Paywall chat about subscription pricing, price increases, and a bit about my side gig Good Migrations… this is the podcast episode for you. Also available to watch on YouTube.

Alright, there’s the good news. Now, to the Democratic leadership: GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND FIX THINGS. Do not slow down, do not pause to debate, do not wander down useless pet project side roads; we don’t need to squabble over trivial points. There are huge problems that need to be solved immediately, and the clock is ticking.

I've pulled my invite-only experiment after four days. I had planned to run it for a month, but it's already clear that the costs outweigh the benefits.Spam signups dropped to almost zero, which is a win, but legit signups – which require an invite code, or an email to me asking for one – dropped sharply. People emailed me asking for a code, but many didn't sign up despite me sending one. Some people emailed for a code then turned out to be spammers! That wasn't entirely unexpected, but what I…

Your boss is the American People, NOT Donald Trump. *** Rogue government employee Donald Trump got almost as bad a performance review from his boss as he deserved yesterday, in the form of firings of some of his fellow delinquents in both houses of Congress and seeing four red-state governorships (including Texas!) flip to the Democrats.As I said in part this morning, "I greeted this morning's news with the same kind of relief I used to feel when the Republican won the Presidency."The primary…

📚 When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut is a series of fictional stories about real early 20th century scientists. It has exquisite prose — I can only imagine what it is like in the original Spanish — covering up some pedestrian thoughts about tortured geniuses.

Karl Bushby’s 28-year walk home (via Mefi) is a fantastic read, with a perfect ending. Realising he’d left behind a son was unsettling, despite their forced separation when Bushby was still a serviceman. But his comment about past explorers gave me pause: When you look at some of our great heroes, like Shackleton and Cook, they were the worst family men you could humanly imagine. They abandoned families left, right and centre. That’s the bit that people don’t think about. Those people had…

When I read a while ago that bird flu on a mink farm in Utah could spark a human pandemic, it was all so ominous and awful that it served as my doomscrolling circuit-breaker for the day. I couldn’t help thinking about the forty-odd N95s in my cupboard, which I’d figured would last a few more Covid infections and DIY dust-mask jobs. Might need some more sooner rather than later. Human lives are being treated as abstract and hypothetical by everyone involved, thanks to years of increasing…

Thank you, America, you understood the assignment. But also, Jesus, what a faceplant for Trump and all of the Republican party. Do you understand how much you have to have fucked up that Kansas elected a Democratic senator? That literally hasn’t happened since the New Deal. Do you know how much you have to have fucked up to have Mississippi still in play as of the writing of this post? MISSISSIPPI. You don’t get any more Republican territory than Mississippi, goddamn. Except maybe South…

An article on Tasmanian devils in the ancient Pilbara in Western Australia (via Mefi) mentioned “the arrival of the dingo about 4,000 years ago [as] a suggested cause for the extinction of the devils from the Australian mainland, with the animals estimated to have disappeared about 800 years later”. The world four thousand years ago, which doesn’t seem that long ago really, was wonderfully strange: The Australian mainland had thylacines and Tasmanian devils; New Zealand was unpopulated and had…

Wow. I have been watching James Talarico before he was dubbed Talafreako. Before he was supported by Obama. Back when he refused PAC money and thousands of ordinary people started giving what they could to his campaign for the senate seat. Texas hadn’t elected a democratic senator in 30 years they said. Yet, there was something decent about this man’s ideals that made me an interested observer. I loved how Talarico’s faith in Jesus motivated him. Although there are many things I disagree with…

I passed on some bread-making advice elsewhere recently, which I might as well also share here. Don’t like kneading? The solution is the stretch and fold. Also, time. Rather than work the dough for ages the moment you’ve mixed it, let it sit for half an hour to let the yeast do its thing. If you leave it long enough, the yeast will do all the work, but you’ll get a more even result by stretching and folding. Wet your hands and/or a dough scraper, get them under the dough in the bowl, and start…

Digger seems destined to be remembered as a box office flop that divided critics, and because of that divided reception I hadn’t planned to see it in the cinema; but when my 15-year-old said it was really good but wouldn’t spoil it by telling me why, I thought I’d go along. I was glad I did. The movie reminded me at first in its tone of Poor Things, no poor thing in my book, so despite the scenery-chewing of its first act I was prepared to give it a chance. Once I realised what was going on, I…

What have you recently finished reading? It’s been comics and poetry collections mostly for the last couple of days, perhaps because I was reading so intensely at the weekend! I think the last thing I finished was Kim Moore’s The Art of Falling, which is a poetry collection by a British poet from Leicester. I enjoyed it quite a bit, overall, though I’m still letting it settle before I actually write my review. What are you currently reading? I only have two books actively “in flight”: Any More…

I’m done with the classics. I’m done forcing myself to read postmodern word salads just because some pretentious types call it avant-garde. And I’m sure as fuck over all things BookTok. Those tools would have you think Lonesome Dove is the pinnacle of literary art. Spoiler: it isn’t. I’m not saying there’s something inherently wrong with those books. There are some who genuinely enjoy them. And I believe there are seasons in life in which the esteemed classics can be important in a variety of…

There are some fine pubs in the city of Edinburgh and a few hours on an afternoon can't do them justice. But nonetheless, I recently called in to half a dozen of the best ones in the centre on my first visit north of the border for several years. Here's how the afternoon unfurled....I arrived in Edinburgh, aka Auld Reekie, just after midday. I had caught the train here from Berwick, where I was staying for a couple of days, with the journey to the Scottish capital taking around 45 minutes. The…